Journal-box.



PATETED JAN. 13, 190s.

J. W. vS'I1:`|PI:IENS0N.

JOURNAL BOX.

APPLIUATION FILED AUG. so. 1902.

2 SHEETS-SHEET l.

H0 MODEL.

wrruzssgs INVENTOR No.l 718,585. Y l `PATENTED JAN. 13, 1903.

' J. W. STEPHBNSON.

JOURNAL BOX.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. so, 1902.

Vno MODEL. a SHEETS-SHEET z.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN W. STEPHENSON, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL MALLEABLE CASTINGS COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORA- TION OF OHIO.

JOURNAL-BOX..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. l718,585, dated January 13, 1903.

A Application filed August 30, 1902. Serial No. 121,616. (No model.)

To alwwm t may concern: which enables the lug to be turned and ad- Beit known that I, JOHN W. STEPHENSON, justed to suit any irregularities in the angle o of Toledo, Lucas county, Ohio, have invented of the face of the box or of the lug itself.

a new and useful Journal-Box, of which the This is a useful and important construction.

5 following is a full, clear, and exact descrip- The lug-seat 7 may be applied to the box in tion, reference being had to the accompanythe same manner as that described with refing drawings, forming part of this speciiicaerence to Figs. 3, 4, and 5. 55 tion, in which- In Figs. 3, 4, and 5 I show a modification Figure l is a vertical section of a journalin which I employ an adjustable lug-seat 7',

1o box with the lid applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a which is iitted to the top of-the box between sectional plan View, the section being on the two ribs 11 l1,A with dovetailed inner sides, line II II of Fig. l. Fig. 3 shows in vertical which extend longitudinally of the box, and 6o section, partly inside elevation, a journalthis adjustable seat has like ribs 8', which box embodying a modification of my invenextend transversely thereto and are adapted 15 tion. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line to receive the base of the lug 3. The seat 7' IV IV of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a perspective View is held in placepreferably by upsetting the of the adjustable seat for the lug on the box. metal of one of the ribs l1 into a notch 12 in 65 In the manufacture of journal -boxes of the seat, and the lug is held to the seat prefrailway-cars difficulty has been experienced erably in like manner by upsetting the metal 2o because of distortion of position of thelugs, of the lug into a notch 13. I thus obtain a caused either in the casting of the box or in double yadjustment of the parts, which enthe case of malleable iron boxes in its subables meto get the lug exactlyin the normal 7o sequent annealing. In some boxes the lugs position. will be nearer or farther from the front of Inapendingapplication,SerialNo. 102,754,

the box than they should be or a little off the I claim a journal-box havinga lug made sepacentral line of the box, and in the effort to rate from the box and secured thereto in deremedy this by hammering the lugs into posired position and a lid hinged to the lug and 75 sition manylugs are broken or weakened and also claim the same where the lug is secured great loss results therefrom. Furthermore, in a dovetail socket in desired position.

3o it is often impossibleto correct wholly the dis- Other modifications of my invention will be tortion of the lug, and when it is not corrected suggested to those skilled in the art, since the lid will not fit the box accurately, and the What I claim is- 8O purpose of the lid in excluding dirt, dac., is l. Ajournal-boxhavingasocket,alug-seat thus defeated. These and other difficulties adapted to be fitted to the socket in desired areobviated by myinvention,whchIWillnow position, a lug adapted to iit on the seat in describe. desired position, and a lid connected to said In the drawings, 2 is the box, 3 is the lug, lug; substantially as described. 85 and 4 is the pivot-pin hole for the lid 5. The 2.` Ajournal-box, alug made separate from lug is cast in a separate piece and is held by the box, a swivel connection between the lug 4o a central rivet 6 to a lug-seat 7,1held to the and the box, and a lid connected to said lug;

box between two ribs 8 8, with dovetailed insubstantially as described. ner sides, and secured, preferably, by driving In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 9o down a portion 9of the metal into a notch or my hand. recess in the lug-seats 7 or into a recess in the boxs surface. The lug has a circular portion 10', which fits in a circular recess Witnesses: 10 on the lug-seat, so that when the lug is ROY SPENCER, riveted thereto it has a swiveling motion J. W. LYONS.

JOHN w. sTEPHENsoN. 

